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adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
accumulation
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From this reading He had made use of the credit of the Lodrins, the accumulation of centuries, to screen his maddest pranks.
afterprepositionUS /ˈæftər/
later than; following
From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading True, he had never overdrawn this credit, he had never by any of his numberless eccentricities raised any barrier between himself and his equals in rank.
angrily
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From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
announcement
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From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
any
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From this reading True, he had never overdrawn this credit, he had never by any of his numberless eccentricities raised any barrier between himself and his equals in rank.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
axiom
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From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
barely
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From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
barrier
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From this reading True, he had never overdrawn this credit, he had never by any of his numberless eccentricities raised any barrier between himself and his equals in rank.
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
beautiful
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From this reading He had grown to manhood discontentedly convinced that Count Hugo Lodrin, his father's elder brother, had done him great wrong, and this wrong was his marriage late in life with the beautiful Princess Wjera Zinsenburg.
betrothal
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From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
betweenprepositionUS /bɪˈtwiːn/
in the space, time, or range separating two things
From this reading True, he had never overdrawn this credit, he had never by any of his numberless eccentricities raised any barrier between himself and his equals in rank.
brother
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From this reading He had grown to manhood discontentedly convinced that Count Hugo Lodrin, his father's elder brother, had done him great wrong, and this wrong was his marriage late in life with the beautiful Princess Wjera Zinsenburg.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading True, he had never overdrawn this credit, he had never by any of his numberless eccentricities raised any barrier between himself and his equals in rank.
careless
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From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
centuries
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From this reading He had made use of the credit of the Lodrins, the accumulation of centuries, to screen his maddest pranks.
certainty
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From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
chivalric
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From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
contrary
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From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
convinced
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From this reading He had grown to manhood discontentedly convinced that Count Hugo Lodrin, his father's elder brother, had done him great wrong, and this wrong was his marriage late in life with the beautiful Princess Wjera Zinsenburg.
Count
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From this reading He had grown to manhood discontentedly convinced that Count Hugo Lodrin, his father's elder brother, had done him great wrong, and this wrong was his marriage late in life with the beautiful Princess Wjera Zinsenburg.
cousin
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From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
credit
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From this reading He had made use of the credit of the Lodrins, the accumulation of centuries, to screen his maddest pranks.
discontentedly
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From this reading He had grown to manhood discontentedly convinced that Count Hugo Lodrin, his father's elder brother, had done him great wrong, and this wrong was his marriage late in life with the beautiful Princess Wjera Zinsenburg.
done
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From this reading He had grown to manhood discontentedly convinced that Count Hugo Lodrin, his father's elder brother, had done him great wrong, and this wrong was his marriage late in life with the beautiful Princess Wjera Zinsenburg.
eccentricities
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From this reading True, he had never overdrawn this credit, he had never by any of his numberless eccentricities raised any barrier between himself and his equals in rank.
eight
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From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
elder
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From this reading He had grown to manhood discontentedly convinced that Count Hugo Lodrin, his father's elder brother, had done him great wrong, and this wrong was his marriage late in life with the beautiful Princess Wjera Zinsenburg.
embodiment
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From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
equals
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From this reading True, he had never overdrawn this credit, he had never by any of his numberless eccentricities raised any barrier between himself and his equals in rank.
estates
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From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
extravagance
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From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
father
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From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
father's
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From this reading He had grown to manhood discontentedly convinced that Count Hugo Lodrin, his father's elder brother, had done him great wrong, and this wrong was his marriage late in life with the beautiful Princess Wjera Zinsenburg.
Georges
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From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
great
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From this reading He had grown to manhood discontentedly convinced that Count Hugo Lodrin, his father's elder brother, had done him great wrong, and this wrong was his marriage late in life with the beautiful Princess Wjera Zinsenburg.
grown
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From this reading He had grown to manhood discontentedly convinced that Count Hugo Lodrin, his father's elder brother, had done him great wrong, and this wrong was his marriage late in life with the beautiful Princess Wjera Zinsenburg.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading He had made use of the credit of the Lodrins, the accumulation of centuries, to screen his maddest pranks.
hardly
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From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
HepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading He had made use of the credit of the Lodrins, the accumulation of centuries, to screen his maddest pranks.
himpronounUS /hɪm/
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading He had grown to manhood discontentedly convinced that Count Hugo Lodrin, his father's elder brother, had done him great wrong, and this wrong was his marriage late in life with the beautiful Princess Wjera Zinsenburg.
himselfpronounUS /hɪmˈself/
used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object
From this reading True, he had never overdrawn this credit, he had never by any of his numberless eccentricities raised any barrier between himself and his equals in rank.
hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
how
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From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
Hugo
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From this reading He had grown to manhood discontentedly convinced that Count Hugo Lodrin, his father's elder brother, had done him great wrong, and this wrong was his marriage late in life with the beautiful Princess Wjera Zinsenburg.
IfconjunctionUS /ɪf/
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading True, he had never overdrawn this credit, he had never by any of his numberless eccentricities raised any barrier between himself and his equals in rank.
inheriting
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From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
late
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From this reading He had grown to manhood discontentedly convinced that Count Hugo Lodrin, his father's elder brother, had done him great wrong, and this wrong was his marriage late in life with the beautiful Princess Wjera Zinsenburg.
led
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From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
life
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From this reading He had grown to manhood discontentedly convinced that Count Hugo Lodrin, his father's elder brother, had done him great wrong, and this wrong was his marriage late in life with the beautiful Princess Wjera Zinsenburg.
lived
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From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
Lodrin
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From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
Lodrins
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From this reading He had made use of the credit of the Lodrins, the accumulation of centuries, to screen his maddest pranks.
long
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From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
maddest
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From this reading He had made use of the credit of the Lodrins, the accumulation of centuries, to screen his maddest pranks.
made
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From this reading He had made use of the credit of the Lodrins, the accumulation of centuries, to screen his maddest pranks.
manhood
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From this reading He had grown to manhood discontentedly convinced that Count Hugo Lodrin, his father's elder brother, had done him great wrong, and this wrong was his marriage late in life with the beautiful Princess Wjera Zinsenburg.
marriage
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From this reading He had grown to manhood discontentedly convinced that Count Hugo Lodrin, his father's elder brother, had done him great wrong, and this wrong was his marriage late in life with the beautiful Princess Wjera Zinsenburg.
mightmodal verbUS /maɪt/
used to say something is possible but not certain
From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
modern
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From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
never
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From this reading True, he had never overdrawn this credit, he had never by any of his numberless eccentricities raised any barrier between himself and his equals in rank.
noblesse
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From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
numberless
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From this reading True, he had never overdrawn this credit, he had never by any of his numberless eccentricities raised any barrier between himself and his equals in rank.
oblige
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From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
old
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From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
old-time
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From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
Oswald
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From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
overdrawn
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From this reading True, he had never overdrawn this credit, he had never by any of his numberless eccentricities raised any barrier between himself and his equals in rank.
permet
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From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
personification
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From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
pranks
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From this reading He had made use of the credit of the Lodrins, the accumulation of centuries, to screen his maddest pranks.
PrincessnounUS /ˈprɪn.ses/
The daughter of a monarch; a female member of a royal family.
From this reading He had grown to manhood discontentedly convinced that Count Hugo Lodrin, his father's elder brother, had done him great wrong, and this wrong was his marriage late in life with the beautiful Princess Wjera Zinsenburg.
raised
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From this reading True, he had never overdrawn this credit, he had never by any of his numberless eccentricities raised any barrier between himself and his equals in rank.
rank
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From this reading True, he had never overdrawn this credit, he had never by any of his numberless eccentricities raised any barrier between himself and his equals in rank.
received
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From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
regarded
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From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
remembered
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From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
screen
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From this reading He had made use of the credit of the Lodrins, the accumulation of centuries, to screen his maddest pranks.
spoken
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From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading He had grown to manhood discontentedly convinced that Count Hugo Lodrin, his father's elder brother, had done him great wrong, and this wrong was his marriage late in life with the beautiful Princess Wjera Zinsenburg.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading True, he had never overdrawn this credit, he had never by any of his numberless eccentricities raised any barrier between himself and his equals in rank.
time
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From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading He had made use of the credit of the Lodrins, the accumulation of centuries, to screen his maddest pranks.
True
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From this reading True, he had never overdrawn this credit, he had never by any of his numberless eccentricities raised any barrier between himself and his equals in rank.
use
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From this reading He had made use of the credit of the Lodrins, the accumulation of centuries, to screen his maddest pranks.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading If Oswald Lodrin might be regarded as the chivalric embodiment of the old-time '_noblesse oblige_,' his cousin Georges was on the contrary the personification of the modern axiom '_noblesse permet_.'
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading He had grown to manhood discontentedly convinced that Count Hugo Lodrin, his father's elder brother, had done him great wrong, and this wrong was his marriage late in life with the beautiful Princess Wjera Zinsenburg.
Wjera
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From this reading He had grown to manhood discontentedly convinced that Count Hugo Lodrin, his father's elder brother, had done him great wrong, and this wrong was his marriage late in life with the beautiful Princess Wjera Zinsenburg.
wrong
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From this reading He had grown to manhood discontentedly convinced that Count Hugo Lodrin, his father's elder brother, had done him great wrong, and this wrong was his marriage late in life with the beautiful Princess Wjera Zinsenburg.
years
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From this reading Georges was barely eight years old at the time, but he remembered as long as he lived how angrily his father, after a life of careless extravagance led in the certainty of inheriting the Lodrin estates, had received the announcement of the betrothal, and how hardly he had spoken of Wjera Zinsenburg.
Zinsenburg
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From this reading He had grown to manhood discontentedly convinced that Count Hugo Lodrin, his father's elder brother, had done him great wrong, and this wrong was his marriage late in life with the beautiful Princess Wjera Zinsenburg.
